Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous